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| South to South co-operation & networking |
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| LARDEF's Ivo de Jesus and SAFOD's Alexander Phiri observe ADEMO's general assembly |
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| Lusophone DPO leaders meeting |
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| PFKAFO - South to South technology transfer. African and Indian participants and trainers at PFKAFO workshop - Addis Ababa |
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| Soikat leads PFKAFO workshop assessment |
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| PFKAFO trials were attended by technicians from across Africa |
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DDP knows that exchanging knowledge and information and building South to South co-operation is hugely important for our partners and for us. We firmly believe in fostering links and matching partners to help each other find practical, appropriate and achievable ways to realize their and our shared goals.
DDP plays an active role in this process by supporting technical visits and exchanges; by encouraging partners to bring their organisational and development skills to support others; by passing information on and by introducing our partners to other networks.
Networking is also invaluable for DDP; through partners like Mobility India we find new partners with which to develop projects and we connect with people in the South who have the skills and knowledge to help our partners to build their capacity.
Here are some examples |
- When DDP started work with CVM on the Centro Ortopedico Jaipur (COJ) rehabilitation centre in Gaza Province, we called on Mobility India’s technical team to help design the layout of the centre, train staff and set up systems to deliver the services
- We introduced PFKAFO calliper technology to Ethiopia in a three way partnership with MI and HN-ACD. We also involved rehabilitation technicians from neighboring Somalia, Kenya and Sudan in MI’s Ethiopian training workshop on PFKAFO technology – spreading the networking
- The MI/HN-ACD practical co-operation continues - MI advises on HN-ACD’s workshop and rehabilitation services set up and staff training
- PFKAFO networking also continues - DDP enabled MI and HN-ACD to take part in a FATO conference where together we presented PFKAFO technology to rehabilitation professionals from all over Africa. Now DDP and MI are working with TATCOT, Africa’s foremost orthotic training centre, to include PFKAFO in their training courses
- DDP projects with Kiran and BIRD in India grew from a Mobility India introduction and, at BIRD, use MI’s technical expertise
- The Partners Training programme creates the most fruitful global networking possibilities. As we support our partners’ trainees (people from India, Ethiopia, Angola, Mozambique, Bangladesh and Nepal) on MIRRTC courses, they learn about each other’s organisations and meet other participants from countries as far apart as Albania and Sri Lanka
- Bringing CVM and LARDEF representatives to a Landmine Survivors Network conference in Washington DC gave them the opportunity to raise awareness about the scourge of landmines in their countries and to make new contacts
- Most developing countries lack rehabilitation professionals and need a more professional approach to rehabilitation. By supporting Angolan, Mozambican and Bangladeshi partner representatives to attend the Orthotic and Prosthetics Society of India conference in 2001, Bangalore we started a learning process which continues today
- Through DDP, our partner LARDEF was able to use southern-based disability and development consultants DIS to steer their organizational development
- In a more complex networking process we involved SAFOD, LARDEF, DIS and LINK in the resolution of a conflict within our Mozambican partner, ADEMO
- Through introducing LARDEF to SAFOD, our networking has led to its first Angolan elected official (a LARDEF member) and a greater inclusion of Lusophone countries in this southern African regional disability network
- DPOs, government agencies and disabled people from 5 Lusophone African countries met in Mozambique in January 2006, through a DDP project, to share their experiences and articulate their needs
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| PFKAFO workshop for trainers at TATCOT |
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The Workshop on prefabricated orthotics components will take place at Tanzania Training Centre for Orthopaedic Technologists (TATCOT) in Moshi, Tanzania from 15 to 18 December 2008.
A joint DDP, TATCOT and Mobility India workshop has been organised targeted at trainers with a view to introducing the new technology in TATCOT’s orthotics course curriculum. TATCOT personnel were involved via an ISPO supported assessment of the PFKAFO Trials when the components were first introduced in Ethiopia. TATCOT will invite other Tanzanian practitioners and will welcome FATO (Fédération Africaine des Techniciens Orthoprothésistes - African Federation of Orthopaedic Technicians) nominated technicians from West Africa. A two person team from Mobility India will lead the workshop which will be held at the TATCOT Centre. |
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http://www.tatcot.org/
http://www.fatoafrique.org/ |
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